Leyland may refer to:
Places
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Leyland, Lancashire
Leyland () is a town in South Ribble, Lancashire, England, six miles (10 km) south of Preston. The population was 35,578 at the 2011 Census.
The name of the town is Anglo-Saxon, meaning "untilled land".
History
English Leyland was an a ...
, an English town
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Leyland Hundred, an hundred of Lancashire, England
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Leyland, Alberta
Yellowhead County is a municipal district in west central Alberta, Canada. It is the only municipal district within Alberta census division No. 14.
History
*1994: Established as a ''Municipal District of Yellowhead No. 94'' on January 1.
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, a community in Canada
Companies
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Leyland Line, a shipping company
Automotive manufacturers
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Leyland Motors
Leyland Motors Limited (later known as the Leyland Motor Corporation) was a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries, buses and trolleybuses. The company diversified into car manufacturing with its acquisitions of Triumph and Rover in 1960 an ...
, a defunct vehicle manufacturer based in Leyland, Lancashire
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Ashok Leyland
Ashok Leyland is an Indian multinational automotive manufacturer, headquartered in Chennai. It is owned by the Hinduja Group. It was founded in 1948 as Ashok Motors and became Ashok Leyland in the year 1955. Ashok Leyland is the second-most ...
, an Indian company
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British Leyland
British Leyland was an automotive engineering and manufacturing conglomerate formed in the United Kingdom in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following the merger of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings. It was partl ...
, a defunct vehicle manufacturer
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Leyland Bus, a defunct bus manufacturer
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List of Leyland buses
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Leyland DAF, a defunct commercial vehicle manufacturer
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Leyland Trucks, a medium and heavy duty truck manufacturer based in Leyland
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Leyland Eight
The Leyland Eight was a luxury car produced by Leyland Motors from 1920 to 1923.
The car was designed by the chief engineer of Leyland Motors, J.G. Parry-Thomas and his assistant Reid Railton, and was intended to be the finest car available. I ...
, a luxury car
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Leyland P76, a car
People
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Carl Sonny Leyland (born 1965), English pianist
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Frederick Richards Leyland (1832-1892), English shipowner
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Jim Leyland
James Richard Leyland (born December 15, 1944) is an American former professional baseball player, coach and manager. He serves as a special assistant to the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Leyland led the Florida Marlins to the ...
(born 1944), American baseball manager
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Joseph Bentley Leyland (1811-1851), English sculptor
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Kellie-Ann Leyland (born 1986), British footballer
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Mal Leyland (born 1945), Australian explorer and film-maker
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Maurice Leyland (1900-1967), English cricketer
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Mike Leyland (1941-2009), Australian explorer and film-maker
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Paul Leyland, British mathematician
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Paul Leyland (rugby league) (born 1986), English rugby league player
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Winston Leyland (born 1940), British-American author
Other
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Leyland Band
The Leyland Band is a brass band based in Lancashire in the UK.
History
The Leyland Band was established in 1946 in the heart of industrial Lancashire as the Leyland Motors Band,Lancashire Post https://www.lep.co.uk/whats-on/music/leyland- ...
, a British band
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Leyland cypress
The Leyland cypress, ''Cupressus'' × ''leylandii'', often referred to simply as leylandii, is a fast-growing coniferous evergreen tree much used in horticulture, primarily for hedges and screens. Even on sites of relatively poor culture, plant ...
, a tree
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Leyland number, a set of numbers named after Paul Leyland
See also
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Leeland (disambiguation)
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Leland (disambiguation) Leland may refer to:
Places United States
* Leland, Illinois, a village
* Leland, Iowa, a city
* Leland, Michigan, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
* Leland, Mississippi, a city
* Leland, North Carolina, a town
* Lel ...
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Leyland Titan (disambiguation)
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